Chinese firm has Android OS replacement.

[Geek-9pm]

Here is a report tom Wall street  Journal.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/huawei-unveils-android-backup-but-prefers-not-to-use-it-11565346923

By Dan Strumpf
Updated Aug. 9, 2019 8:00 am ET

DONGGUAN, China—Huawei Technologies Co. offered the first details about the operating system designed to replace Google’s Android on its smartphones, as the Chinese technology giant races to develop backups to American technology following its U.S. blacklisting.

Huawei’s new operating system, called HarmonyOS, is intended to run on all of Huawei’s consumer gadgets, including its hugely popular smartphones, which run Android and have taken a sales hit overseas since its May blacklisting, said Richard Yu, the head of Huawei’s consumer-device business.

Huawei prefers to continue using Android, the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, on the company’s smartphones, Mr. Yu said. But Huawei could switch its handsets to HarmonyOS “in just one or two days” if it had to.

This might have wide impact on the smartphone and Personal Computer industry.

From Washington Post:

The Trump administration says Beijing’s efforts are based on stealing or pressuring companies to hand over technology. Washington and other trading partners say the Chinese campaign violates its free-trade obligations.

Washington has labeled Huawei a security threat, an accusation the company denies. Some officials also see the rise of Huawei and other Chinese tech competitors as a potential threat to U.S. industrial leadership.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/huawei-unveils-phone-system-that-could-replace-android/2019/08/09/d1e6acd0-ba83-11e9-8e83-4e6687e99814_story.html?noredirect=on

Comments ?

[DaveLembke]

I don't see this affecting the PC market as they aren't launching an OS that replaces x86 or x64 system OS's

As far as OS that can replace the Android OS, I am more curious if they reverse engineered Android and copied it as their own or if they went the Linux approach to an ARM OS and have a cleanly coded OS that doesn't have remnants of Android OS at its core.

[BC_Programmer]

HarmonyOS does not target Smartphones. It is currently intended for devices like Televisions, and they might bring it over to their smartphones over the next 3 years.

They claim it will be Open Source, so if that is true then that seems like it could be good- Open Source Forks could be useful.

[DaveLembke]

Cool... Open Source also means that the code is exposed for what it is too, so maybe less likely for a rogue OS to worry about.